Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!bcyclone03.am1.xlned.com!bcyclone03.am1.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail
Return-Path: <python-python-list@m.gmane.org>
X-Original-To: python-list@python.org
Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org
X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001
X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:text': 0.05; 'none,': 0.07; 'subject:file': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:How': 0.10; 'python': 0.11; '2):': 0.16; 'did.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'library': 0.18; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'certainly': 0.24; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'tim': 0.29; 'chase': 0.31; 'subject:other': 0.31; 'subject:from': 0.34; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'different': 0.65; 'received:pacbell.net': 0.84
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
To: python-list@python.org
From: emile <emile@fenx.com>
Subject: Re: How to select every other line from a text file?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:01:24 -0700
References: <3be64ca8-d2e7-493a-b4f3-ef114f581450@googlegroups.com> <m1h39u$412$1@reader1.panix.com> <m1h43h$l63$1@ger.gmane.org> <m1h4lt$r3k$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAPM-O+zwF=HzCWFHxUJ2wBMKX+7hr7D3PB4J+abUaHZODur0wg@mail.gmail.com> <20141013141235.4c551f37@bigbox.christie.dr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-226-129-65.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0
In-Reply-To: <20141013141235.4c551f37@bigbox.christie.dr>
X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15
Precedence: list
List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language <python-list.python.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/>
List-Post: <mailto:python-list@python.org>
List-Help: <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list>, <mailto:python-list-request@python.org?subject=subscribe>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Message-ID: <mailman.14833.1413230517.18130.python-list@python.org>
Lines: 17
NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6
X-Trace: 1413230517 news.xs4all.nl 2972 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:39079
X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl
X-Received-Bytes: 3104
X-Received-Body-CRC: 3884846985
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:79067

On 10/13/2014 12:12 PM, Tim Chase wrote:

> You mean like
>
>    offset = 0 # or 1 if you prefer
>    for line in itertools.islice(source_iter, offset, None, 2):
>      do_something(line)


I certainly did.  Learning the python standard library is different from 
learning python and each in its own time.

Emile